135 Quotes About Ancestry

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

We have speakers each month, but the real thing is to get people involved who are interested in looking into their ancestry and helping the historical society preserve records into a usable form. Hopefully we are meeting the needs of these people and the society as well.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

All these ancestors of mine, when they arrived here, there weren't restrictions on them as there are now. Who's to say whether they would have been able to come themselves if there had been restrictions? But I'm glad they did, because here I am.